I want more ways of addressing an object. I could really use an altname property.
Put 8 into field altname "myField" This way I can address a field by either its name or its altname. I have a definite use for that. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Barncard Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 2:06 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: set rect of fld f1 of cd c1 of wd w1 to rect of fld f2 of cd c2 of wd w2 Don't like that. Looks like APL to me. A major point of Transcript is to be easily HUMAN readable. Consider a rotten apple thrown. > >A Modest Proposal: > >How about if we eliminate both and enforce just a single-character >typing convention for objects and numeric values only for object >identification? That way "field 3 of card 7" would come out to "f3c7" >for a minimum of typing. The engine's parser would, of course, >separate these into separate tokens "f 3 c 7" and be quite happy. >Developers would have to type just four characters and the code would >be much more readable because there's just one way to describe an >object instead of two. The engine's parser would also run faster >because it wouldn't have to discriminate between two different forms >of object description. > ></fruit> > >-- >-Mark Wieder _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
